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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY

1988.

Books of the Week-Edited by Roger Pippett

PICK OF THE HOLIDAY FICTION

Serenade, by James M. Cain (Cape, 7, 64.)." A singer runs away with a Mexican girl. Benantional, powerful, passionate and tough.

Tray for the Wanderer, by Kate O'Brien (Heinemann, 71. 6d.). A tale of love, star-crossed and other- wise, in Ireland. The scenes and the people live.

Oh, Bay Can You Bee! by Lewis Browne (Cape, 8s. 6d.), in which a Soviet student discovers the United Slates. Brilliant catire.

Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh (Chap- man and Hall, 78, 68.), The Press under heavy fire in two continents. Organised massacro-and Ano fun.

Joseph in Egypt, by Thomas Moon (Seeker and Warburg, Two vola, 159.). More chapters in Herr Mann's re- telling of the Bible story.

The Moon is Feminine, by Clem- ence Dano (Hielzemann. 78. Gd.). Romance and fantasy-among the mermon in Brighton A hundred years ago.

Nightingale Wood, by Stella Dibbons (Longmans, Green, 83. 5d.).

A shrewd and delightful tale about two unhappy familles.

1640, by Jack Lindsay (Mothuen, 108.). England under Old Noll with the Levellers fighting a losing battle. Fine historical fiction.

Malmum Mao, by Andrew Mar- vell (Gollancz, &a. Gd.). Our latest serial between two covers. Follow those little folk to victory!

I Should Have Stayed Home, by Horace McCay (Arthur Barker, 78. Gd). One more low-down on 3ife in the Golden Fum City- Hollywood.

Tho

The Secret Kingdom, by Walter Greenwood (Cape, 8s. 6d.). proud and convincing pilgrimage of one of Lancashire's daughters,

The Unvanquished, by Willazı Faulkner (Chatlo and Windus,

7a. Gd.j. A story of the American Civil War,

the skies.

Lit by ghtning from

The Crowning of a King, by Arnold Zweig (Secker and Warburg, 93. Gd.). Another distinguished war tale by the crentor of Bergeant Grischa

She seems to know all the answers.

By Paul E

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

CAMEL

(SHIP OF THE Desert) THE PHRASE "SHIP OF THE DESERT," AS APPLIED TO A CAMEL, ORIGI NATED IN GEORGE SANDY”. PARAPHRASE OF THE BOOK OF JOB (1610), IT OCCURS IN THE COUPLET :—

"THREE THOUSAND CAMELS HIS

RANK PASTURED FED, ARABIA'S WANDERING SHIPS, FOR,

TRAFFIC BRED.

ALLEY OOP

BY GUM, FODZY, THIS HAVIN' RUNNIN' WATER. RIGHT IN OUR

CAVE IS GREAT!

BERPANIER

YEAH, WE'RE WELL FIXED

UP IN EVERY WAY 'CEPT WE MAY GIT LONESOME HERÉ

SOME DAY!

Kar

THAT'S NO CRITTER, INOR JUNGLE PUP-

WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S COMIN' UP!

IT'LL MIGHTY SOON BE GOIN' BACK DOWN) AGAIN == - WITH A

HEADACHE!

CREAK

CREAK

BUMP SCRAPE

CREAK!

JAVELIN

THE SPANISH WORD FOR A WILD BOAR WAS UABALE," AND JABAL INA” WAS THE SPEAR USED IN HUNTING THE ANIMAL. FROM THE LATTER WORD WE GOT JAVELIN "FORA MEDIUM- SIZED SPEAR.

By Vincent Hamlin

HEY, OUR LADDER- JIMINY CROW! SUMPIN'S,

GRABBED IT DOWN

BELOW!

KING GUZ!

.M. REC, U, S. PAT, OFF.

CREE-E-E-E-X!!

ALLEY

OOP!

COPA 1936 BY NEA SERVICE. INC.

Dynamite

-in curlers

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

NATOLE FRANCE once said that his business 08 በ writer was to wrap up dyna- mite in curl-papers, Virginia Woolf, I can assure you, feels that way sometimes, too.

of the influence that women exercise,” ho can hardly contain her contempt. I warned you that she was a dangerous WOMEN

Dangerous because she has thought sleadily and wisely, declining to bu labelled feminist" but seeing clearly how much more, in rights arid recog. nition, her sex has to win in life-not to mention lettera.

She is most widely known as a novellat. nut. I am not thinking of her Action heru, I am thinking of two amall books in which, trending lika an

Sho put the avenging angel, she has woman's point of view.

-Nine years ago, in the first of them, A Room of One's Oton, Mr. Woolf surveyed the subservient past of her sex and argued that woman had the best of their liven before them-pro- vided they were given fixed incomes and rooms of their own

Today, in Three Guineas (The Ho- garth Press. 78. Od.), she develops her attack along the whole social front. "Enough of these blasts of the trum- pet against the monstrous regiment of women!" I can fancy her saying sa she sot out to sound this counter- charge of her own.

She received three separate requcots for a guinea, subscription. Ono came trom the treasurer of a society for the preservation of peace and civil and intellectunt liberty. Another was from the bursar of wernen's college. The third was an appeal from an organisation for obtaining employ. ment for professional women.

I

Mrs. Woolt'z answers cover more than two hundred and fty pages. hope she will condense them to fifty: slie whether she realises 16 or not. n born pamphleteer, Meanwhile, there is more than enough here for the de- vastation of masculine complacency.

"Tho work of an archbishop in worth £16,000 a year to the State. The work of a judge is worth £5,000 a year. The work of a permanent secretary is worth £3,000 year ...

"The work of an army captain, of a naval captain, of a sergeant of dragoons, of a policeman, of a postman -all these works are worili paying out of the taxes

"But wires and mothers and daugh- ters who work all day and every day. without whose work the State would collapse and fall to picces, without whone work your sons would cense to exist, are paid nothing whatever. Can it be possible?"

And, if you answer, "Husband and wife are not only one flesh, they are also one purse," Mra. Woolf is for from sautsfled. If you say, “All, but think

What a

GUIDE!

F

JORTUNATE Will be the student who, setting out to explore the economic history

of this country, takes The Economy of Britain: A History, by H. M. Crapmo and R. J. Hammond Christophers, Bs. Gd.) as his gulde. He could get no better.

Developments of a thousand years cre traced in little over three hundred pages, a tuak which must have raised in an acute form the familiar problem of what to put in and what to leave out, yet the nuthors emerge from the dilemma with high credit,

'Their book is rich in information, but the setting out of what men have done has never been permitted to run to so much detail as to leave no room for telling why they did it and what. were the consequences.

So you are left with

A mental groundwork in the subfeet which the heaping up of ten times as many facts, at the sacrifice of interpretation, would not have given you.

In a volume covering such a wide feld, you should not carp unduly at a Jew errors. But it is somewhat startling to find Keir Hardie turning up as a leader of the London dock strike of 1889,

It is also incorrect to describe houta as being "legally fixed" in Trade Board industries. What the Trado Boards do is to prescribe a point beyood which an overtime rate must be paid, a quite different thing from "fixing hours,

And when the Authors write of the Transport and General Workers' the unskilled labourera' Union as unlon par excellence," they only show their lack of acquaintance with that many-sided organisation.

A. W. II.

The P. & O. Banking

Bho ocems to know all the answers.

overhears you perhaps, co- larging on the amount of freedom many women enjoy to-day. Certainly, hut she goes on to suggest quietly that It might be illuminating to chalk on a large-scale map of Britain the pro- perty owned by men (red chalk) and by women (blue).

What a woman! The dynamite is In the curl-paper every time.

R. P.

CONCERT PITCH

N these days when conductors rival film stars for tempera- mant it is interesting to have a player's view of the great men behind whose backs we sit in the concert-hall.

In The Orchestra Speaks (Long- mans, Green, Ja, S.), Bernard Shore, the principal viola of the B.BO, Bym- phony Orchestra, tells us amusing, in- teresting and instructive things about auch meh na Koussevitzky, Mengel- berg, Beecham, Bouli, Toscanini and Henry Wook!.

Musicians are inordinately conscien tious, but they don't always think highly of their audiences Mr. Shore has a story about Kreisler passing fish shop where, on the front slab, ky

fine catch of cod-fish arranged in a row with their mouths wide open and their ginssy eyes starlug.

· Kreisler suddenly stopped, looked at them and, clutching his friend violently by tho arm, exclaimed: Heavens, they remind me—I should have been playing at a concert!"

And there is an addition to the thousand and one stories about Beecham, Arrlying at the opern house Just before the curtain was due to go up, he leant over to the first violin and wald: "We are performing 'Figaro' to-night, are we not?

Oh. no. Sir Thomas," said the lender. "It is Seragito "1"

My dear fellow," rald Beecham," "you amaze mol" And, closing his score of "Figaro," he proceeded to con- duct the opera from memory.

Toscanini is here, the unquestioned muestro, inspired and inspiring. But even his amazing memory can fall hin sometimes, it seeins. In 1937 he actually fonjot that a certain minim played by the violas near the beginning of the

Siegfried Idyll" was dotted!

And the book ends with Henry Wood, who, i Toscanin! commands most

certainly wonder,

commands mont admiration and respect. A

super- wman sheepdog tirelessly prowling the pasturen of English music

says Mr. Peppercorn:

YOUNG COrge

DAVIS

came

along with an easy ono for a change.

A

countryman

went up to town one afternoon. I left home with C1 in his

S. F.

pocket and came back with £3.

During the afternoon he bought a bat at hatshop, some flowers in the market place, and had a tooth stopped.

The man's pay day is Friday and the banks are open on Tucs day. Thursday and Saturday.

The dentist comes every day ex- cept Saturday.

Thursday is early closing day and there's no market on Friday. George asked us what day thie man went to town.

We all spotted it must have been the Tuesday, oven old Badger. although he was a bit worried about Thursday being early clos ing, na with us it's Wednesday.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED,

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

PEANUTS

ARE BEANS,

NOT

NOTS.

SMOKY JUNGLE FROG

OF SOUTH AMERICA EATS SNAKES, BIRDS, WIZARDS AND BATIS!

G-Z/ COFR-1938 BY NEA BERVICE, INC.

By William Ferguson

TOP AND BOTTOM

OF A

FLAT-FISH

ARE ITS SIDES.

A FLATFISH is like any other fish in his younger days, but later on he gradually turns on his side, and then his sides became the top and bottom, and what once served as his upper and lower portions become his sides.

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Iceland Portrays Its Geysers on Postage

RUGGED, pitted Iceland is one

of the most volcanic regions on the entire carth. Volcanle ac- tivity has been going on almost continuously from the formation of the land in the time-dimmed Tertiary perled to

"The~!

present. There are 107 known volcanoes-in Iceland together with thousands of craters.

But the most spectacular evi- dence of this vulcanism today are Iceland's hot springs and geysers. Hot springs are found in every part of Iceland, both singly and in groups. Sulphur springs and boiling mud lakes dot the country, and in places there are carbonic acid springs.

Great Geyser is the giant of them all. After being inactive since 1916, suddenly in 1935 It re- newed its magnificent displays. shooting hundreds of tons of water 150 feet Into the air. Today resi- dents of Reykjavik contemplate harnessing the Great Geyser and ather hot springs to heat the capi- tal city. Already many buildings are thus heated, hot water swim- ming pools provided.

One of Iceland's great geysers f shown above on one of our current stamps portraying them.

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Price 20

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